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gnome.org: release management, documentation, bug management and other adventures.

GNOME 3.0 cleanup status.

The first 2.31 release ahead and something you should do:Cleaning up your module. 73 known issues left (three weeks ago: 93 issues). GNOME modules: anjuta: GSeal brasero: GSeal bug-buddy: Bonobo control-center: Deprecated GTK+ symbols dasher: Bonobo and GSeal ekiga: Shouldn’t … Continue reading

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GNOME 3.0 cleanup: Call to module developers

I was recently asked (Czech link) “On a scale from 0 to 10 for GNOME 3 as planned to be where would the development be now?” My answer was “From my limited point of view currently a 7: Lots of … Continue reading

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GNOME 2.30 released.

Personally especially happy to see the first modules using topic based help (Mallard) and that Czech language has 100% UI translation for the first time in years, probably for the first time ever. Big thanks to everybody who was involved.

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GNOME 3.0 schedule proposal published

Today the GNOME release schedule proposal for 2.31/3.0 was published. Please keep discussion streamlined on desktop-devel mailing list. It also lists high risk areas and potential showstoppers (please note the word “potential”) as I want to communicate them clearly to … Continue reading

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GNOME 3.0 module proposals welcome now!

The Module proposal period for the next GNOME release has started! If you are a maintainer of a module that you want to propose for official inclusion in GNOME: Do it now! See the wiki for the guidelines.

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FOSDEM, ah well, why not?

Okay, after checking exam dates, chatting with Olav and the Openismus crew, and having the Maemo and GNOME communities in mind I’d like to state: Just booked a one-way flight to Brussels, not decided yet how and where to go … Continue reading

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2009 Bugzilla statistics for maemo.org and GNOME

This morning my calendar told me there’s a new year available, so I created some quick & dirty statistics for my favorite bug databases: maemo.org Bugzilla 2009 stats GNOME Bugzilla 2009 stats

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GNOME 3 platform cleanup

Long time no update on the Cleanup part of GNOME 3, hence if somebody wants to spend the Christmas days with hacking a bit on boring stuff, here’s the ToDo list! ;-) Killing libgnomeui: gnome-panel Killing libglade: gdm (patch available … Continue reading

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To GNU or not to GNU

Being not subscribed to GNOME’s foundation-list mailing list (and having no intention to subscribe to it), I tried to catch up a bit with the controversy of the last days. I might have missed stuff of course. Trying to summarize: … Continue reading

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GNOME 3.0: September 2010!

After collecting some feedback, the GNOME Release Team has finally decided on the release date for GNOME 3.0: It will be September 2010.To take a look again at the GNOME 3 plan that was released in April 2009: Click here. … Continue reading

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